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Thursday, 16 February 2012

I'm just in the mood for a good moan; I shall do it in a whiney querulous voice that is designed to grate upon the ear. Stand by.

Why am I getting so many spam comments, many in Russian or Polish?
Why does everyone suddenly seem to have weird and difficult word verification boxes on their comment forms?
Alice didn't know she had one. Do I have one?
If I do, why doesn't it screen out the Russian and Polish robots?
How do you get rid of it?
Why is new improved Blogger so horrible?
Why have so many of my Followed blogs disappeared from my list?
Where are my own Followers?
Why was Scooter dipping his paw into the pond this morning?
Why was the tiny mouse, that I rescued alive and well from under the dresser last night, found dead in the hall this morning?
Why is it so hard to re-set the electronic bathroom scales after we messed them up trying to weigh my sister's suitcase?
Why couldn't she or I do the most basic maths when trying to convert her weight plus a suitcase - in pounds - to the suitcase minus her weight - in kilos? So much for a moderately expensive education.
Why won't the mammoth pile of clean laundry transform itself from Ironing to Ironed?
Why have I put on all the weight I recently lost? Oops, I know the reason* for that one; ignore.

There's more. I shall spare you.

I think I have Februaryitis. Today, I would really, really, really like a warm sunny day to sit out in.

39 comments:

Those word verification things drive me mad I'm afraid. You can opt not to have them, just go the comments section of the settings on blogger. I don't bother with it and have yet to have robot spam. If I do I shall simply delete it. Any other spam including Russian spam gets filtered into a spam folder by blogger and does not appear on the blog. check your setting to see if this is enabled.

Nope no verification box the comment just wafts off into cyberspace with the comment "will appear after blog owner approval" btw my 11 year old works better with blogger than I do...would you like to borrow her? she'd love to visit ....

I read your comment about it on Alice's blog but it wasn't active when I posted though I have noticed today that a lot of blogs that used not to have WV, now has it and it is driving me mad! It all seems to be arbitrary.

Oh Dear,im assured it will be spring soon and all will be well with the world again.To answer the questions i can,No you dont have a verification box on your blog,I too hate the new blogger and cant find half of my followed blogs. As for the mouse i guess it didnt run fast enough and as for scooter,maybe one of those frogs got past security.

I had to put word verification along with approval on my comments box as I was sick of spam and trolls. I don't know if this puts folks off commenting but my followers still leave them :o)Sometimes my followers disappear all together ? Yes, new blogger is a right royal pain in the ass Rachel! Each week there seems to be a different problem with it...grumble,grumble. Rose H

crank up the heat...turn on lots of lights and light some candles ..... .add a shot of Tia Maria to your coffee...and I don't know what if that is tea.... oh, yes... Grand Marnier....and enjoy a warm cosy day inside....with a good book.

Spring is REALLY coming Rachel! Hang in there!(But I totally agree about spams, the ironing pile, and well huh..the few extra pounds...Ah, that sweet tooth!)Hugs to Flossie, Tosca and the rest of the gang!

I don't know the answer to any of those questions! But I do know that commenting on blogs doesn't seem to be as simple as it once was. On this blog I am getting a separate box coming up to comment in, rather than just a box on the same page as the post! and Google thinks I am "D", not Frances as I once was. I am also struggling with a new computer ( iMac) which does nothing the same as the old mini mac did) I think I am feeling a bit like you are. Never mind, spring is on the way......I taught my grand daughter to say " drops" for the snowdrops on the lawn yesterday, and she remembered it to tell her Mum later. Bless!

Definitely February ... and it's even one day longer this year . Rats !!Oh , and talking of which , that miniature mouse just died of fright , I expect . Had someone thought she looked a bit like a prawn ?

Sounds like a bad case of cabin fever! If I could I'd send you some sunshine in an envelope, but it's the devil's own job to fold it......I could send you my cat who seems hell bent on driving me crazy. One more at your place would hardly make a dent? On second thoughts, if he's making me crazy he might not cure, so much as exacerbate, your gray and cloudy mood!

I've just abandoned the new blogger interface and gone back to the user-friendly one. I've also got rid of word verification/moderation and those nasty captcha things that I didn't know I had. Blogger has seen fit to use them instead of the older 'wheelchair' form.

February - pah! It's grey and dull here but too mild for a cheery fire.

Dr. Google suggests a large pot of your favourite blooms to increase blood circulation and raise general happiness. If it helps to know that you have company in computer frustration, yesterday my beloved found himself shouting out loud at his skype log-in and had to remove himself from the laptop to prevent the object of his misery being hurled through a closed window. Februaryitis must be going around.